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So last night I was all set to make mussels with escargot-style butter, a la this recipe. But having whipped up the butter (albeit with wine because I didn't want to drop $30 on Pernod), I realized that most of the mussels I'd bought were dead and didn't want to waste the butter on the remaining questionable ones ( Read more... )

Hey guys! This is my extra virgin post to this fine community, so I hope you guys like what I made. It's my take on a Restaurant Wars recipe from this season's Top Chef, made to work with ingredients I had on hand/could get for cheap. Excuse the quality of the pictures, the batteries for the digicam were dead so I took these with my cellphone. ( Read more... )

While in Seattle last week we had dinner at the Flying Fish where we had the steamed mussels like we'd never had them before, Thai style. We were blown away by the flavor and the wonderful accompanying sauce. I shipped home 4lbs of mussels so tonight I decided to give it try. Luckily the waiter had been kind enough to give us a rough idea of what ( Read more... )

This weekend, I tried my hand at some food photography and some of the results follow. Quite tricky, especially if you don't have adequate lighting and no time because you want to eat it now.


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I recently moved to an island in Puget Sound. In fact, I live just moments from Penn Cove. That would be the Penn Cove of shellfish fame. It's delightful to live in a place where the grocers proudly stock the local mussels. They're cheap and plentiful!


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for the past 48 hours or so i have had a deep and unyielding craving for mussels. i've been daydreaming ( Read more... )